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Jacob Zuma has narrowly survived a motion of no confidence against him in parliament, the most serious attempt yet to unseat him after months of growing anger over allegations of corruption and a sinking economy.

It was the sixth such vote of his increasingly beleaguered presidency, but the first involving a secret ballot, with a broad coalition of opposition parties and renegade MPs from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) falling just short of the simple majority needed to force Zuma... Read more HERE.

Police searching for a driver who sped off after ploughing into soldiers patrolling an upmarket Paris suburb have shot and arrested a man on a motorway north of Paris.

Security sources told AFP that the arrest was linked to Wednesday morning’s attack, which injured six members of the 35th infantry regiment, though there was no official confirmation. The attack occurred at about 8am during the changeover of soldiers stationed at Place de Verdun, not far from the town hall in Levallois-Perret. Read more HERE.

North Korea has vowed to exact “thousands-fold” revenge against the US after the UN imposed new sanctions in response to its recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

In a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, the government said the sanctions were a “violent violation of our sovereignty” & part of a “heinous plot to isolate and stifle” the country. The UN security council unanimously backed new sanctions that could slash the regime’s $3bn in annual export revenue by a 3rd. Read more HERE.